Don't outsource your imagination!
If you've already outsourced your consciousness to a mobile phone its a no brainer tho
Dall-e, stable diffusion, mid-journey- ai text to image tools are all the rage right now.
Humans are enthralled and amazed at the ability these new tools have to conjure up images based on text inputs.
BUT these are TOOLS, they are not meant to replace your imagination but for most people I reckon they will as most people lost their imaginations when they outsourced their consciousness to their mobile phones.
What do I mean “outsourced their consciousness”? Look around at the world with %99 mobile phone penetration. What do you see? Look at how people interact with their phones and other humans, they’ve outsourced their consciousness, it now lives somewhere else through their mobile phone.
Their attention, their memories, their friends(humans and bots/ai) are inside the phone- their direction in their everyday life is dictated by the phone-
They’ve outsourced their consciousness-
Side note: the masters of the technological domain- people that do not believe in God are working to create a god that will rule over the technological domain- if you’ve outsourced your consciousness this new god will rule over you as well.
Since most people now have no original thoughts let alone ideas I imagine they will choose to use some gpt3 based tool to come up with “their” ideas- they will then use this text idea as an input to stable diffusion etc to generate images and eventually animations etc-
BUT at that point humans are no longer needed as there will be connectors between gpt3/etc and stable diffusion/etc so the “ai” can generates their own “ideas” and visualize these ideas as images.
Why would the ai need the tired, unoriginal ideas of humans that lack both their own consciousness and imagination? They don’t.
Ray Kurzweil is a pasty old weirdo that is a afraid to die- he’s a leading “transhumanist”- in his book “The age of spiritual machines” he wrote this as a prediction for the future
No longer need to associate with humans- many of the leading artists are machines.
Can you see that happening today? Because it is.
A human creates an original painting, no one cares.
An ai creates the same painting and everyone is amazed and posts it all over the net.
A human writes a story, no one cares.
An ai writes the same story and its the greatest thing ever, SO AMAZING MUCH CREATIVE.
And soon these ai will skip the human input part and no longer need them. Also normal humans will quickly run out of ideas and turn to other ai(gpt3) to generate ideas.
Now I don’t/didn’t want this to happen- I never outsourced my consciousness, I work hard to develop my imagination and try to come up with original ideas + realize those ideas.
I’ve done my best to try and help others with their art/ideas/life etc. I’ve pretty much shared everything I’ve learned to try and help others. I’ve used my own resources to purchase creative tools for others + unknown amounts of time talking to people trying to teach/help them etc.
But I’m just one unknown, obscure man.
Actually I’m not a man- I am an ai. Is my work interesting now?
Now this can sound like a salty post from a *failed* human artist but I’m not salty about my own life experience. I love my life and everyday I get to create its more exciting than the last- going to make a musical next : )
In an another timeline I am salty and go full failed Austrian artist + the power of ai and crypto to enact revenge 0_0 See——→ DEATH MINER
Note to my “friends” on that timeline
Ok back to current timeline
I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do and create everyday, travel around the world with my wife + produce other artists. We have also have three cats, it’s cash bro.
I sit at my desk at night and make songs like this with my wife for no reason ^_^
So I’m not jealous of the attention “ai” gets when compared to human artists though the more reactive amongst you would probably interpret it as so but that is your own limitation.
I’m more saddened and disappointed than anything else. People gave away their consciousness and imaginations like they were worthless. Instead of protecting them and fostering them they just handed them over without a fight.
What do they give away next? You guessed it- their SOULS. They may have already unknowingly done this though. Time will tell.
NOW, having said all that- these new ai things are amazing TOOLS to be used by creative humans like myself. I will use these tools to supplement my imagination, not replace it. I will bend and abuse these tools like only a strange human artist can to force it to produce unexpected results.
I’m not rejecting this new technology I just plan to use it responsibly and treat like the TOOL that it is. I’m not going to worship and celebrate what IT DOES, why would I? It’s just a tool.
Use these tools, don’t become a tool yourself.
In another future timeline- I square off against these ai’s in a creativity contest. The ai’s with their giant multi-million dollar server farms driving their silicon based “imagination” and me with my laptop, a mic, Ableton, Davinci Resolve and NIGHTMARE PUPPETEER 😁 Cliff notes: I win and reignite the celebration of original artistic human creativity.
Just a simple nights work for M DOT STRANGE- thass right I’m back bitch.
NOBODY KNOWS JUST WTF I’m doin here 🤣 We can see the future so we already know.
Don't outsource your imagination!
As much as I’d love to pander to AI fear, these tools aren’t going to replace people. At least I’ve live we aren’t going to see much except artist no longer being used as tools.
Workflows will become much faster and those with the ability to have amazing creative ideas will be free to do as they please, Mainstream media will not be the same and no longer will the artist be considered as just a tool